Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Her work in anthropology examined black folklore. Hurston influenced many writers, forever cementing her place in history as one of the foremost female writers of the 20 th century.
Both her parents had been enslaved. At a young age, her family relocated to Eatonville, Florida where they flourished. In , Hurston enrolled at Morgan College, where she completed her high school studies. Hurston was an active student and participated in student government. In , Hurston received a scholarship to Barnard College and graduated three years later with a BA in anthropology. Together, the group of writers joined the black cultural renaissance which was taking place in Harlem.
Throughout her life, Hurston, dedicated herself to promoting and studying black culture. She traveled to both Haiti and Jamaica to study the religions of the African diaspora. Her findings were also included in several newspapers throughout the United States.
Hurston often incorporated her research into her fictional writing. As an author Hurston, started publishing short stories as early as Unfortunately, her work was ignored by the mainstream literary audience for years. However, she gained a following among African Americans. In , she published Mules and Men. She later, collaborated with Langston Hughes to create the play, Mule Bone. She published three books between and One of her most popular works was Their Eyes were Watching God.
But her perseverance and love of her culture made for a much richer life than many people know. Near the turn of the century, Hurston was born the spirited daughter of former slaves.
Her parents had gone on to become a schoolteacher and a Baptist preacher. Her father's sermons were likely what sparked the girl's fascination with storytelling, which she'd later use not only in her works, but also in the construction of her public persona. Over the course of her life, Hurston offered contradictory dates of birth. And in her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road , she inaccurately claimed Eatonville, Florida, as her birthplace, when in truth she was born in Notasulga, Alabama, probably on January 7, But Eatonville was her home from about age 3 to 13 , and a major influence on her work.
One of the first places in the United States to be incorporated as an all-black town, it was also home to a vibrant and proud African-American community that protected the young Hurston from the cruel racial prejudices found elsewhere in the United States. Years later, Hurston would cherish this place and the self-confidence it instilled in her works.
She once described it as "A city of five lakes, three croquet courts, three hundred brown skins, three hundred good swimmers, plenty guavas, two schools and no jailhouse. Despite a seemingly ideal hometown, Hurston knew hardship. At 13, she lost her mother, and was booted out of boarding school when her father and new step-mom failed to foot the tuition bill. Down but not out, Hurston found work as a maid, serving an actress in a traveling theatrical company that gave her a taste of the world beyond Florida.
In Baltimore, she lopped a decade off her age a subtraction she maintained the rest of her days to qualify for free public schooling that would allow her to complete her long-delayed high school education. From there, she worked her way through college, studied anthropology and folklore, and had her earliest works published in her school's paper. By , the year-old earned an associate degree from Howard University in Washington D.
Five years later, she made the fateful move to New York City, where she eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Barnard College after studying with the pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas. There, she also became a seminal and controversial icon of the Harlem Renaissance. As the Black civil rights movement expanded in the United States, new generations of activists questioned her work.
Her publications were often dismissed as too traditional and narrow by new generations of Black activists. In , Zora suffered a stroke. She had very little money and moved into the St. Lucie County Welfare Home in Florida. On January 28, , she died of heart complications and was buried in an unmarked grave. Although relatively unknown at her death, Zora was an important female voice in the largely male literary world of the Harlem Renaissance.
Her work inspired—and continues to inspire—future generations of artists, authors, and anthropologists. In a professional context it often happens that private or corporate clients corder a publication to be made and presented with the actual content still not being ready. However, reviewers tend to be distracted by comprehensible content, say, a random text copied from a newspaper or the internet.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God. Fellowships often give individuals times to conduct research or create new work without limitations while being paid. Often passed through families and communities by word of mouth. Langston Hughes: A famous Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist, playwright, and activist. Tuskeegee Institute: An African American school for higher education and job training. One of the first of its kind. Founded by activist Booker T. Washington in Alabama in Discussion Questions.
What was special about Eatonville and its school? What was the Harlem Renaissance and how did Zora contribute to this important moment in American history? Despite being a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora was relatively unknown and very poor when she died. Why do you think she fell out of the spotlight so quickly? What does this tell you about the state of race and culture in America in this era? Print Section. Suggested Activities. Zora was influenced by the teachings of Booker T.
Washington at an early age. Zora was one of thousands of women to relocate to Harlem from the South.
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